| wrack | 1. Wreck; ruin; destruction. "A world devote to universal wrack." (Milton) 2. Any marine vegetation cast up on the shore, especially plants of the genera Fucus, Laminaria, and Zostera, which are most abundant on northern shores. 3. <botany> Coarse seaweed of any kind. <botany> Wrack grass, or Grass wrack, eelgrass. Origin: OE. Wrak wreck. See Wreck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| wraith | 1. An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. "She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith." (Sir W. Scott) "O, hollow wraith of dying fame." (Tennyson) 2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; called also water wraith. Origin: Scot. Wraith, warth; probably originally, a guardian angel, from Icel. Voror a warden, guardian, akin to E. Ward. See Ward a guard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wranny | <zoology> The common wren. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| wrap | A cover, particularly one that enfolds or encloses. (05 Mar 2000) |
| wrasse | <zoology> Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright-coloured. Among the European species are the ballan wrasse (Labrus maculatus), the streaked wrasse (L. Lineatus), the red wrasse (L. Mixtus), the comber wrasse (L. Comber), the blue-striped, or cook, wrasse (see Peacock fish, under Peacock), the rainbow wrasse (L. Vulgaris), and the seawife. Origin: W. Gwrachen. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |